Need a .htaccess expert for this one please?

[GenXer]

What I do on my sites is just .htaccess allow certain sites to hotlink and disallow ALL others

[chilihost]

Originally Posted by GenXer

What I do on my sites is just .htaccess allow certain sites to hotlink and disallow ALL others

That is the best thing to do especially when you are a target for asian forum hotlinkers. Have you gone to the forums and seen how they hotlinked? Sometimes they use proxies (like safeurl) and other domain names to do the actual hotlinking and they change their referral info to mess around with your logs and htaccess files. I would recommend going to their website, finding the exact pages where you are hotlinked and viewing their code to see if you can decipher it.

Good luck!

cheers,
Luke

[lux_interior]

Originally Posted by chilihost

That is the best thing to do especially when you are a target for asian forum hotlinkers. Have you gone to the forums and seen how they hotlinked? Sometimes they use proxies (like safeurl) and other domain names to do the actual hotlinking and they change their referral info to mess around with your logs and htaccess files. I would recommend going to their website, finding the exact pages where you are hotlinked and viewing their code to see if you can decipher it.

Good luck!

cheers,
Luke

Nice idea Luke thanks! I'd looked at the sites but didnt thnk about looking at the code. I'll give it a go.

Lux